I especially love Singapore's regular think tanks that inspire youth to reimagine governance. I once wrote about one of the ideas that resulted: A "wikiocracy." www.elysian.press/p/what-if-go...

They also have done more with Georgism and land taxes which I love than anywhere in the world…and have the most robust and scientific DEI-type system on the planet as well as incredible public housing…hardly Curtis’s paradise

Singapore has actually recently become an avid user of QV

The solution isn't to abolish democracy, it's to innovate it. @glenweyl.bsky.social thinks democracy could become incredibly organized and efficient if we catch it up to the times with:

Quadratic voting
Quadratic budgeting
Participatory democracy

And yes, automation!

What did you think @gregmepstein.bsky.social ?

engaged.ca.gov

This Kentucky example is a long running one yes

The goal is to give an exit to as many people as possible who are on the moving walkway from normal tech bro to full on NRX

I am debating him next month. opentodebate.org/debate/shoul...

@glenweyl.bsky.social — Founder, Plural Technology at Microsoft and tech liberty initiatives.

And thereby helps to some extent justify, I think, the deep mistrust so many have towards economic and money-based solutions to political settings, and possibly points to how to think in a way consistent with mechanism design past these limitations.

While this all may sounds ultra-econ-nerdy (it is!), it is really a deconstruction of the econ paradigm from within it, showing that the paradigm just cannot deal with a world of public goods/increasing returns in any meaningful sense.